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Okigbo, Karen Amaka. "Americanah and Ghana Must Go : Two Tales of the Assimilation Experiences of African Immigrants." Sociological Forum 32, no. 2 (June 2017): 444–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/socf.12341.
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Sanka, Confidence Gbolo, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, and Charles Ofosu Marfo. "Tales in the Paasaali Dirge: Structure and Moral Lessons from the Past." Manusya: Journal of Humanities 23, no. 1 (March 21, 2020): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-02301002.
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Among the Paasaala people in the Upper West Region of Ghana who speak paasaali, dirge performance and the execution of the tale go hand in hand; the two genres complement each other. This paper investigates the close relationship between tales and dirges and establishes some of the reasons that bind them together in the Paasaala funeral context. By using the theory of ethno-poetics and methodologies such as close observation of live performances of dirges, interviews with poet cantors and cultural custodians of some selected Pasaala communities, recordings of live dirge performances as well as references to some documented sources on dirges and tales, the researchers find that there are different structural types of dirges among the Paasaala, but the marriage between appellations, the tale, and song is unique, and it is one of the most complex forms. This union is imbued with several merits, and these merits range from the aesthetic to the utilitarian.
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Beek, Jan. "CYBERCRIME, POLICE WORK AND STORYTELLING IN WEST AFRICA." Africa 86, no. 2 (April 6, 2016): 305–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972016000061.
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ABSTRACTIn West Africa, both cyber fraud and cyber policing are mainly about storytelling. Based on fieldwork in the Ghanaian police, this article explores criminal investigations of email scams; it shows how actors rely on, make use of, lose faith in and reinvent stories. Each cyber fraud case can be understood as a series of connected tales, and all involved try to change the direction of the narrative. While the first tale takes place in virtual spaces between continents, the later ones are located in Ghana and are about police work there. The actors' stories both tap into and create social imaginaries, and the involved actors thereby craft conflicting notions of order and disorder. However, not only the fraudsters' stories but also the police officers' and victims' stories are often factually inaccurate and are partly fictional. Ultimately, all actor groups struggle to create believable stories under current conditions.
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McGuffey, C. Shawn. "Rape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda." Journal of Black Psychology 47, no. 6 (April 22, 2021): 401–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00957984211008057.
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Interdisciplinary scholarship in violence and trauma studies suggest that a person’s interpretation of stressful events contours how the person will respond. It is through the two-part appraisal process that survivors determine how they will cope. This project utilizes an identity-based approach to demonstrate that survivors use group-based ideologies such as social class, geography, gender, sexuality, and, for some, race to appraise their accounts of violence, assess their coping strategies, and manage traumatic events. Using the cross-cultural accounts of 146 Black Ghanaian, South African, and Rwandan women rape survivors, the findings extend the appraisal approach by highlighting how survivors in this study utilized sexual morality tales to construct a variety of appraisal accounts to interpret their assaults and to justify their coping strategies. I call these appraisals opportunities, possibilities, limitations, and solidarities. These differing appraisals demonstrated that social milieu contours the psychological experience of violence and can engender both parallel and divergent interpretations across social class and cultural contexts. Last, the implications of these findings for comparative sexual assault studies, theories of traumatic coping, gender and development, and intersectionality are discussed.
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Salter, Phia S., and Glenn Adams. "Mother or Wife?" Social Psychology 43, no. 4 (January 2012): 232–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000124.
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Inspired by “Mother or Wife” African dilemma tales, the present research utilizes a cultural psychology perspective to explore the dynamic, mutual constitution of personal relationship tendencies and cultural-ecological affordances for neoliberal subjectivity and abstracted independence. We administered a resource allocation task in Ghana and the United States to assess the prioritization of conjugal/nuclear relationships over consanguine/kin relationships along three dimensions of sociocultural variation: nation (American and Ghanaian), residence (urban and rural), and church membership (Pentecostal Charismatic and Traditional Western Mission). Results show that tendencies to prioritize nuclear over kin relationships – especially spouses over parents – were greater among participants in the first compared to the second of each pair. Discussion considers issues for a cultural psychology of cultural dynamics.
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Aboagye, Gabriel Kwasi, Michael Arku-Asare, Magdalene Brown, and Bennice Nelson. "DETERMINANTS OF RESEARCH INTEGRATION INTO TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE TALES OF BUSINESS EDUCATION FACULTY MEMBERS." International Journal of Education and Social Science Research 05, no. 03 (2022): 133–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/ijessr.2022.5309.
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All over the world, there are growing concerns about the significant impact played by faculty members in their quest to actively involve their students in the teaching and learning process coupled with administrative processes. Relating to universities in Ghana and in most of the world’s universities, the major criteria for faculty promotion are the quantity and quality of research papers in reputable journals. This has triggered the popular dictum “publish or perish”. Therefore, most faculty members, desirous not to perish (stagnate in their career) and in their quest to be elevated higher on the academic ladder, spend substantial amount of their time working on their research interests to the neglect of integrating these researches into their teaching and administrative practices. This has been attributed to several confounding factors of which this study seeks to unearth. Using the sequential explanatory research design of the mixed methods, the study sought to espouse the determinants of faculty’s ability to effectively integrate research into teaching and administrative practices for purposes of corroboration and expansion. By adopting the census method, all 162 Business Education faculty members were engaged from the public universities in Ghana that offered Business Education. Questionnaires and interview protocols were used for data collection. The questionnaires were validated through the conduct of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). It was therefore, concluded that the determinants of the research-teaching nexus are more curriculum-related. Thus, the nexus highly affects the curriculum than any other aspect of university processes and administrative practices. Nevertheless, it is worthy of note to acknowledge that it does not mean that any researchactive faculty member would automatically integrate their research experience into teaching and administrative practices because such activities require conscious, intentional and intensive efforts. It emanated from the study that the determinants of the research-teaching integration include research productivity stimulation factor, empirically-based teaching factor, research active curriculum factor, time-oriented factor, and responsive curriculum factors. Responsive curriculum is the dominant factor among all the factors affecting the compatibility between research and teaching. It is therefore recommended that universities should draft discipline-specific research-teaching nexus policy documents to cater for subject-specific differences in terms of implementing the nexus. Faculty members should also be sensitised on how to balance their limited time between research and teaching in order to optimise the benefits associated with the research-teaching-administrative nexus to inform both their teaching and administrative practices.
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Sekyi-Baidoo, Yaw. "Post-climax analysis in ‘toli’ – the Ghanaian humorous tale." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 2 (July 18, 2020): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.2.sekyi-baidoo.
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Aspects of contextual jokes include the relationship with the goal of the interaction, and the involvement of the audience in the overall manifestation of the joke and its response. Sacks' identification of the ‘response’ or the ‘reaction’ – the final of the three-phased organisation of joke narratives (Sacks, 1974: 337; Attardo, 1994: 307-311) points to an aspect of the manifestation of contextual jokes beyond the fabula or the narration of the tale ‘proper’ to include a part relating to the reaction of the audience. Such reactions may be the joke itself or to its telling. A study of the performance of humorous tales, called toli in Ghana, reveals that the final phase, which we refer to as ‘post-climax’, involves the attention of all players, not to the telling of the tale, but to the incongruity and humour which underlie the very identity of the humorous tale. The post-climax discussion is, thus, an analytical reaction to various points of the tale, which has become an integral part of the performance of the tale as a conversational act, and which contributes extensively to the total manifestation of humour and laughter. Based on incongruity and comic-climax perspectives, the paper discusses the nature and strategies of post-climax, including the association of tale audience and setting, hypothetical extension of tale, incongruity and forced congruity discussions, dramatization and evaluations of realness, through which laughter, the main tenet of the genre, extensively manifests.
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Harsch, Ernest. "Ghana takes African governance exam." Africa Renewal 20, no. 3 (October 31, 2006): 4–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/cbdc5d9b-en.
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Adepoju, Paul. "Ghana takes on sickle-cell disease." Lancet 395, no. 10222 (February 2020): 402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30293-2.
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Sanusi, Hajj, and Samuel Adu-Gyamfi. "Ghana’s foreign policy: Some regional and national interests." Journal of Human Sciences 14, no. 1 (February 28, 2017): 598. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v14i1.4370.
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Dr. Kwame Nkrumah`s Non-Aligned policy has been a key variable in Ghana`s foreign policy, and successive regimes after Nhrumah have pursued this policy in various ways. Since its political reforms in 1992, Ghana has established itself as an anchor in political dispensation on the African continent. In the sub-region, Ghana is seen by other countries as a leader by exhibiting its competences and maturity in political change and good governance, and its peacekeeping involvement in the subfield. Whiles Ghana takes credit for these attributes; her response to regional issues has not always been as readily forthcoming as in others. This paper seeks to analyze Ghana`s foreign policy directions in the sub-Saharan region, and ECOWAS. How consistence or inconsistence has Ghana been, in the implementation of foreign policy objectives within the ECOWAS, between the periods of 1992-2016. The paper leads the hypothesis that, lack of a well-defined and articulated defence policy document has somewhat resulted in inconsistencies in responding to crises in the region.
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Wireko-Gyebi, Rejoice Selorm, Michael Osei Asibey, Owusu Amponsah, Rudith Sylvana King, Imoro Braimah, Godfred Darko, and Anne Mette Lykke. "Perception of Small-Scale Miners on Interventions to Eradicate Illegal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana." SAGE Open 10, no. 4 (October 2020): 215824402096366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020963668.
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The proliferation of illegal mining in Ghana, coupled with its environmental impacts, especially on water bodies has compelled the government to ban all artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) activities in the country. The ban is intended to promote environmental sustainability while the government takes steps to provide sustainable health, and environmental-friendly ASM in Ghana. This paper assesses the perception of registered miners on the current approach by the Ghanaian government to stop illegal mining. Analyses of data from focus group discussions and key informant interviews revealed that the miners felt “left out” of the entire process. They maintained that they were not directly involved in the process to ban illegal mining in Ghana. To them, the proliferation of illegal mining in Ghana is the result of non-performing government institutions, corruption, and cumbersome licensing procedures. The article calls for improvement in the collaboration between the government and miners through a simplified participatory framework for the management of ASM in Ghana.
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G., Raja Mohan Reddy, M. P. Venkatesh, Achin J., and Pramod Kumar T.M. "REGULATORY PERSPECTIVES OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS IN GHANA." International Journal of Drug Regulatory Affairs 2, no. 2 (February 12, 2018): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.22270/ijdra.v2i2.126.
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Drug Registration is a procedure of expertise of pharmaceutical product quality, efficacy and safety by the Regulatory Authority. The emergence of various formats has enabled the manufacturers of the drug to easily gain access into various markets and thus was able to place their products into the market. The choice of Ghana as one of the destinations for the market of the Drug products ensures the manufacturer a good market value. Ghana is considered as one of the growing pharmaceutical market in east Africa. Of late, generic drugs are holding a major stake in the pharmaceutical market and are gaining more and more confidence in the usage. Majority of medicines in the Ghana are generic drugs which are considered as value for the money and affordable. With Ghana Regulatory Authority is the Food and Drugs Board, which takes decision to register the product and issues Registration Certificate. This study mainly focuses on the regulatory environment, registration process involved and the regulatory requirements that are applicable for the generic drug products in Ghana.
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Opare-Addo, Felix Yobo. "Political instability and tourism in Ghana (1966-1981)." African Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 2, no. 1 (June 26, 2020): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/ajthm.v2i1.145.
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In the 1960s most governments in West Africa, including Ghana which was under the leadership of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana began to incorporate tourism into their economic development plans. The idea was to diversify the economy in order to provide infrastructural development, economic and social prosperity for populace. Unfortunately, Nkrumah’s government was toppled in 1966. In the subsequent years, Ghana experienced a period of political instability. This paper takes a critical look at the efforts of the various governments in Ghana (from 1957 to 1981) to develop tourism in terms of their policies and their roles as agents of tourism development; the creation of a conducive environment for tourism to flourish, the involvement of the private sector both foreign and local, the provision of tourism infrastructure and how political instability impacted negatively on tourism development in terms of the flow of international tourist arrivals, potential investors, tourism product development and delivery, and tourism receptive facilities.
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Amoako, Seth, and Elvis Boateng. "Considering factors that leads to sustainability of Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana using PESTEL and theories of entrepreneurship as a measuring tool." Technium Social Sciences Journal 31 (May 9, 2022): 594–653. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v31i1.6340.
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This study was intended to identify factors that lead to the sustainability of small and medium enterprises in Ghana using PESTEL and theories of entrepreneurship as a measuring tool and also made appropriate recommendations for readdressing. The study seeks to solve the problem of high pay to employees, a process that Small and Medium Enterprise face to access the loan and relatively high income to the employee. To enumerate various sources of funds available to SME's in Ghana and to examine the different causes that contribute to the sustainability of small businesses in Ghana, consider the variables that lead to the collapse of new SME's activities, to ascertain the impact of factors that contributes to the sustainability of SME’s in Ghana and to evaluate the PESTEL effect on SME’s in Ghana. Data were obtained through questionnaires from managers and entrepreneurs in Kumasi, Ghana. The sample was selected using quota, stratified and convenient sampling method. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) in the form of tables. The researchers recommended that entrepreneurs or managers of Small Business should be expert in management in all spheres of business endeavor such as funds , human resource etc. for good management contribute to SME's sustainability as well as dealing in good and quality goods or products for quality products contributes to SME's sustainability
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Quartey, Peter, Michael Danquah, George Owusu, and Abdul Malik Iddrisu. "Unmasking the contributing factors of entrepreneurial activities among men and women in Ghana." Journal of Economic Studies 45, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 114–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jes-08-2016-0152.
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Purpose Using the 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey data, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the contributing factors of entrepreneurial propensity among males and females in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Using a measure of entrepreneurial propensity that takes into account individuals who are involved in starting a new business (nascent entrepreneurs) as a dependent variable and socio-demographic characteristics, and perceptual variables as explanatory variables, the study adopts robust empirical estimation techniques to examine how these variables influence the probability of starting a new business among men and women in Ghana. Findings The probability of being a male nascent entrepreneur is significantly dependent upon a wide range of factors including demographic, economic, perceptual and contextual elements, albeit with important variations across gender. An individuals’ subjective assessment of fear of failure in starting a business and of having the requisite entrepreneurial capabilities; the age of the individual; gender of the individual; work status and contextual factors matters for entrepreneurial propensity in Ghana. However, important differences exist in the drivers of entrepreneurial propensity for males and females with females’ entrepreneurship attributed largely to conditions of necessity relative to their male counterparts. Originality/value The main value of this paper is to use the GEM survey (which is nationally representative) for Ghana to analyze the contributing factors of the entrepreneurial propensity among men and women in Ghana.
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Mensa-Bonsu, Maame A. S. "Why Electoral Reforms are Urgently Needed in Ghana." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 29, no. 2 (May 2021): 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2021.0359.
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In this article, I examine the breathtakingly wide scope of executive power and the low threshold for electoral victory in Ghana's constitution. I demonstrate how the ‘first past the post’ electoral formula colludes with the ‘winner takes all’ government configuration to saddle Ghana with a corruption-fuelled governance crisis that could escalate over time to be an existential threat to the longest-lasting democratic period Ghana has ever known. I assert that electoral reform to provide for consociational government is the only feasible way to simultaneously lessen the starkness of electoral loss and create some public accountability loops, the absence of which have made corruption both easy and unpunishable.
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Abdulai, Iddirisu. "The Ghana Public Records and Archives Administration Department-Tamale: A Guide for Users." History in Africa 27 (January 2000): 449–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172126.
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This department, which was until December, 1997 known as the National Archives of Ghana, takes care of documents from northern Ghana, and has served both local and international researchers since its establishment in 1960. The Ghana Public Records and Archives Administration department in Tamale has had quite a number of visiting researchers, but there are few descriptive guide for users. This paper is intended to serve as an introductory guide in this respect.Between 1950 and 1954, the Gold Coast Archivist undertook a survey of District records in the various district headquarters of what was then the Gold Coast Colony, Ashanti, and the Northern Territories. This led to the establishment of the National Archives of Ghana, offices at Kumasi on 3 August 1959. This was intended first to serve the Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, and Northern Ghana areas. The office was housed on the premises of the Government Agent's office at Kumase. When the Tamale office was opened, it was also housed on the premises of the Regional Administration there. The space is very cramped and there have been constant calls on the department to look for their own accommodation.The archives opens at 8.00am, but requests for documents from the repository starts only at 9.00am and lasts until 3.00pm, except for a break between 12:30pm and 1:30pm, during which no documents can be requested. The visitors' book must always be signed.An international/foreign researcher is required to bring a letter of introduction from the Ghana Public Records and Archives Administraton headquarters in Accra.
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Avendal, Christel. "Social Work in Ghana." Journal of Comparative Social Work 6, no. 2 (October 3, 2011): 106–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v6i2.70.
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In contemporary Ghana, the traditional system and professional social work operate as two parallel systems within the field of social work. The aim of this study was to investigate if and how the teaching of contemporary professional social work in Ghana takes into account traditional actors and practices. The traditional system includes extended family members and traditional authorities such as chiefs or family heads. It formed the social institution that protected and cared for the vulnerable before (Western) social work was introduced as a formal profession in Ghana. A 10-week ethnographic field study was conducted at the Department of Social Work at the University of Ghana. The study employed a qualitative, social constructionist approach, interpreting the results within a theoretical framework of social world theory. The empirical material consisted of interviews with students and teachers, participant observation at lectures, and various documents. The main findings of the study were that professional social workers and traditional actors can be seen as members of two subworlds – the subworld of professional social workers and the subworld of traditional actors. Students and teachers discuss interventions from the perspective of social workers and traditional actors. Their ability to take different perspectives seems to be crucial for localisation – the process by which social work is made relevant to local culture and traditions. The interviewees’ accounts reveal how localisation is not only about culture, but also about social structures and practical considerations. The poor state of the social work profession in Ghana affects interventions in a profound way.
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Asekere, George, and Ebenezer Teye Amanor-Lartey. "Of Parochial Partisanship and Education: Towards Civic Duty or Polarization?" Journal of Politics and Law 15, no. 1 (October 29, 2021): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jpl.v15n1p7.
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This article explored parochial partisanship among university students amid growing concerns about political polarization in Ghana. The paper used mixed research methods to gather data with the aid of an interview guide and a questionnaire. It argued that university education inculcates in and endows young people with a sense of civic-minded duty to prioritize the collective good of society and subordinate parochial partisan preferences in an analysis of political policies. The novel finding is that university education in Ghana has enlightened many young people to decipher between the facts and the propagandistic view held by political activists because of parochial partisan interest. However, university education was found to be a necessary but not sufficient condition to wipe out parochial partisanship which is the bane behind the growing political polarization in Ghana. The paper recommends continuous seminars on the dangers associated with negative partisanship in all tertiary educational institutions. Further, the winner-takes-all politics should be reviewed.
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Odijie, Michael Ehis, and Mohammed Zayan Imoro. "Ghana’s Competitive Clientelism and Space for Long-Term Stable Policies." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (July 2021): 215824402110315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211031513.
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Given the close election results and the winner-takes-all nature of politics in Ghana, researchers have argued that the two parties are now characterized by a high degree of vulnerability, which in turn provides strong incentives for ruling elites in both parties to find strategies to ensure their political survival. This results in the distribution of state resources to political supporters and short-termism, which weakens the possibility of building a broad political consensus on any national development issues. Using the case of Ghana’s Right to Information Bill, this article will argue that there are conditions under which elite commitment to long-term development could be fostered and sustained in competitive clientelist political settings like Ghana.
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Raji, Rahman olanrewaju. "Impact of Exchange Rate on Selected Macroeconomic Variables: A case study of West African Monetary Zone." Journal of Global Economy 9, no. 1 (March 25, 2013): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1956/jge.v9i1.286.
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The study takes a cursory look at reaction of macroeconomic variables due to exchange rate shocks of four selected WAMZ countries in order to assess the level of macroeconomic convergence in the zone between the declaration’s year of WAMZ, 2000 and 2010 using Structural VAR country by county. It was observed that monetary policy and money supply attained their co-integrating equilibrium in Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria while exchange rate attained co-integrating equilibrium in Gambia and Ghana within two quarters. The growth rate reacted positively on exchange rate but the magnitudes of reactions were not strongly up to expectation among the countries. The contribution of exchange rate depreciations to money supply and inflation is much in Sierra Leone when compared with other economies and more surprisingly, the past exchange rate influenced the current exchange rate strongly in Sierra Leone but moderately in other economies in the zone. Interestingly, Ghana economy happened to be a distinctive economy in the zone in term of selected variables reaction to exchange rate depreciation. For the zone to establish currency union, three most promising countries are Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria due to symmetrical alignment exhibited in some macroeconomic parameters, although the synchronizations were not strong but moderate among the promising nations.
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Dumbe, Yunus Yunus, Victor Selorme Gedzi, and Osman Issah Seekey. "Contesting Religious Authority in Ghana: Perspectives of Literary Works of Aminu Bamba." Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam 1, no. 2 (June 29, 2020): 108–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37264/jcsi.v1i2.21.
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This paper examines the literary works of Aminu Bamba as a perspective of his contributions to Islamic reform and counter to religious unorthodoxy propagated by some religious elites in the Tijaniyya movement in Ghana. It pays particular attention to his interpretations of issues that pertain to theology, jurisprudence, and conflict resolution competences. Whereas this paper takes into cognizance the fact that aspects of his ideas on Islamic theology and jurisprudence were not original as they are well reflected in the mainstream traditional Islamic scholarship, the paper analyses the uniqueness of his ideas that center on eradicating religious unorthodoxy within the Tijaniyya. The article argues that Bamba’s reform ideas considerably depart from the Sufi-Salafi polemic that the debate on Islamic reform always characterize in Ghana.
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Ampofo, Justice Agyei, and Abigail Antwi Abrefi. "THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOLISM AMONG THE YOUTH OF ZONGO COMMUNITY OF WA IN THE UPPER WEST REGION OF GHANA." International Journal of Management & Entrepreneurship Research 2, no. 5 (October 23, 2020): 314–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.51594/ijmer.v2i5.165.
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There are many adverse consequences of drinking alcohol during youth age. However, there seems to be paucity of studies on alcohol usage among the youths in Ghana in general and Zongo Community youths in Wa Municipality in the Upper West Region of Ghana in particular. This research seeks to bridge this knowledge gap by determining the effects of alcoholism on the youth of Zongo Community in Wa of the Upper West Region of Ghana. The youth from Zongo Community were selected from the Wa Municipality. The sample consisted of 100 participants who were randomly sampled. The data gathering tool was a 41 item questionnaire containing both open and close-ended questions. The data was analysis in percentages and findings were presented in the form of tables, pie charts and bar charts. The study revealed a high rate of alcohol consumption among youths of Wa Zongo community. The study also revealed that males consume more alcohol as compared to females. It was also found that peer influence, family history of alcohol use and stress are the major causes of alcohol use among youth of Zongo Community in the Wa Municipality. The study recommends for ‘Alcohol Anonymous’ groups to be formed in Wa Zongo Community as well as policies to control the sale and use of alcohol among youth of Zongo Community in the Wa Municipality of Ghana.
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Mbawuni, Joseph. "Assessing Financial Reporting Quality of Listed Companies in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ghana." International Journal of Economics and Finance 11, no. 9 (August 13, 2019): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v11n9p29.
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The adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Ghana is expected to improve the quality of financial reporting among companies in Ghana. This paper assesses the extent to which financial reports of companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) meet financial reporting quality (FRQ) dimensions of IFRS. It was a descriptive study that employed two experienced professional chartered accountants who practice as independent auditors to use FRQ criteria to assess financial reports of 20 purposively selected companies listed on GSE for 2012 and 2013. Given the high inter-rater reliability (r = .96, 95% C.I., p < .0001), the findings indicate that, overall, FRQ of the listed companies meet FRQ standards by 56.48%. Generally, the financial reports were 60.95% faithfully represented, 51.01% relevant, 50.10% understandable, 40.09% comparable and 19.75% timely audited (or 80.25% untimely). Fundamental FRQ characteristics were more prevalent than enhancing FRQ. Poorly rated FRQ areas were in the use of historical cost as measurement basis, no use of graphs and tables to clarify information, no inclusion of comprehensive glossary, ratios and index, no information on adjustment in past accounting figures for future decisions, and no comparison of current and previous accounting periods and with those of other firms. The study concludes that FRQ of the listed companies is moderate but needs considerable improvement. Implications to theory, practitioners, policy makers and industry regulators are discussed. This study fills the dearth of empirical research in FRQ in IFRS-compliance companies in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and Ghana in particular.
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Nkegbe, Paul Kwame. "Credit access and technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana." Agricultural Finance Review 78, no. 5 (October 1, 2018): 626–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/afr-03-2018-0018.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between credit access and technical efficiency of smallholder crop farmers in northern Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a random sample of 445 farming households in the three northern regions of Ghana. The two-stage double bootstrap DEA approach was used to consistently estimate technical efficiency scores as well as the determinants. Findings The results revealed that, given the current technology, there is substantial yield or productivity gap among the sample of producers in northern Ghana used for the study. This is because producers can reduce input use by over 50.0 percent while still achieving the same output levels. It is further revealed that proportion of household income from off-farm activities, distance of farm from homestead, location and credit access are significant determinants of technical efficiency. Originality/value The current study differs from previous studies in two basic ways. First, it takes into account the fact that smallholder farmers practise mixed or inter-cropping by using value of output so that various crops on a given plot of the farmer can be aggregated; and second, a nonparametric approach is adopted so that the inherent inconsistencies in using the two-step model within a parametric framework can be avoided.
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Adinyira, E., M. Sohail, S. Oteng-Seifah, and T. Adjei-Kumi. "Private sector driven supply chains in Ghana's rural water sector." Water Policy 12, no. 3 (November 9, 2009): 416–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2009.192.
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Since 1993, the rural water sector of Ghana has implemented a policy of increased private sector partnerships within the sector. The policy has resulted in private sector driven supply chains in rural water supply. This paper takes a look at these private sector driven supply chains and at the perceptions of various stakeholders regarding their outputs. These perceptions were gathered through a survey carried out in two communities in Ghana. The paper concludes that though supply chains in the two communities are significantly private sector driven, demand for installation services are directly linked to the activities of implementing agencies (government, NGOs, international donor agencies) while that of repair services, maintenance and spare parts are directly linked to the installed equipment. Policy makers must therefore look more closely at the role of agencies responsible for the implementation of their policies to ensure that maximum benefits are derived from increased private sector partnership.
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Boateng, Paul Coonley, and Gerald Dapaah Gyamfi. "Assessing the Defence Cooperation Agreements Between the USA and African Countries." International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.311420.
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International security cooperation is regarded as one of the key and successful mechanisms to fight terrorism and other cross-border criminal activities worldwide. This paper focuses on the benefits and challenges of the US and African countries' defence cooperation, using Ghana as a case study. This study used 21 people as participants. The subjects were selected based on their unique knowledge and expertise in the phenomenon under study. The researchers used interviews to solicit the views of the participants on the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Ghana and the US focusing on the benefits and challenges. In conclusion, the study disclosed that no country has a monopoly on what it takes to fight terrorism and other transnational organised crime alone. The major challenges identified include the breach of domestic law, limited mutual trust, and discriminately ethnic and misguided religious practices. The challenges were stated as indispensable for the sustainability of the DCA and the successful mitigation of terrorism and transnational organised crime in West Africa.
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Aidoo, Mark S. "'If this is of God': Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity." Journal for the Study of Religion 34, no. 2 (January 21, 2021): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2021/v34n2a3.
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African Christianity takes the challenges from their enemies and the evil forces seriously. There is hardly a call to love the enemy. Moreover, it is about destroying physical or spiritual beings that oppose one's wellbeing. In the African Pentecostal/Charismatic ministries, one finds pastors and prophets who are cursing their colleagues openly. This essay reflects on the cursing prayers of Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the founder and Presiding Bishop of Lighthouse Chapel International, and Pastor Kelvin Elson Godson, founder of Zoe Outreach Embassy, Ogbodjo, Accra to explore their religious, ethical, and cultural justifications in contemporary neo-Charismatic ministries in Ghana in light of the African religious and cultural values. It uses the African cultural hermeneutics and paradigmatic approach in biblical ethics to show why the Akan of Ghana do not allow leaders of society to curse others. It shows that it is not only the motive and intention of the one at prayer but also the cultural and religious values that make cursing prayers legitimate or illegitimate.
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Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena. "'"Christ is the Answer": What is the Question?' A Ghana Airways Prayer Vigil and its Implications for Religion, Evil and Public Space." Journal of Religion in Africa 35, no. 1 (2005): 93–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1570066052995834.
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AbstractReligion and life, both private and public, remain strongly linked in Africa. This was recently expressed in a prayer vigil organized by Ghana Airways when the staff and management invited a London-based Ghanaian evangelist, Lawrence Tetteh, to lead a 'healing and deliverance' service aimed at exorcizing evil spirits from the affairs of the airline and releasing it from its predicaments. The organization of a healing and deliverance session by a public corporation, it is argued, is symptomatic of the quick African resort to the sphere of religion in the search for solutions to life's difficulties. Religious functionaries including Pentecostal/ Charismatic pastors are important in Africa as purveyors of powerful prayers, potent medicines, and amulets for protection against evil. The Pentecostal 'healing and deliverance' ministry has become popular in African contexts like that of Ghana because it takes African worldviews of mystical causality seriously. This Christianity promises Christian alternatives to the search for security that drives people into the courts of other religious functionaries.
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Anane, Eric, Justine Awudetsey, Bliss Cornelius Sedegah, Mark Mishiwo, and Godwin Awuitor. "Exploring problem-solving skills among junior high school one students in mathematics at Akatsi South District, Ghana." Journal of Educational Development and Practice 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/jedp.v7i.973.
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The purpose of this study was to explore how Junior High School (JHS) 1 students solve word-problems in Mathematics. A total of 112 JHS 1 students were purposively selected from 41 public basic schools in the Akatsi South District of Ghana. Interview guide and test items comprising questions on word-problems in Mathematics on “Fractions”, “Perimeter” and “Area” were used to collect data. Percentages and frequency distribution tables as well as descriptive statistics (mean, mode, median and standard deviations) were used for data analysis. It was found that most of the students were able to read the word-problems in Mathematics but a majority of them could not read the concept names correctly. It was also found that a majority of the students could not solve the word-problems in Mathematics (fractions, perimeter and area) correctly resulting in very low performance. It is recommended that the Institute of Education, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Ghana, should include problem-solving skills in Mathematics as a course in the curriculum of Colleges of Education in the country. The Institute of Education should collaborate with the Ghana Education Service to organize inservice training programmes for teachers to equip them with the skills and strategies needed to enforce the teaching and learning of Mathematics using problem-solving approach.
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Yaping, Qu, and Mary Bossman. "Logistics and Supply Chain Management Efficiency Strategy for Ghana’s Mining Industry." European Journal of Business and Management Research 6, no. 2 (April 26, 2021): 193–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejbmr.2021.6.2.779.
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The invaluable contribution of the mining industry in any country’s economy is widely acclaimed and thus not far-fetched. In as much as the mining industry contributes hugely to economic and social growth, its operations are characterized by complex supply chain processes that are relatively capital and cost intensive, and technologically sophisticated to manage. Unfortunately, firms in the mining industry especially for developing countries tend to focus more on procuring modernized equipment and technologies to carry out the complex processes of mining operations to the detriment of applying logistics optimization models.
This research project therefore seeks to analyze the logistics and supply chain operations of mining companies in Ghana, identify the challenges and inefficiencies associated with these operations and their underlying causes, and recommend logistics and supply chain management design, modelling and analysis tools to optimize. With the help of secondary data collected from books, journals, which were further depicted in graphs and tables, the Microsoft Excel Solvers for Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP, Version 3.42), with an embedded Bing Map Key License was used to illustrate and derive optimal solutions for the transportation efficiency of mining firms in Ghana.
The study revealed that the mining industry in Ghana is confronted with supply chain issues like poor road networks in mining communities, variable lead time and exchange rate, strict governmental laws, violent clashes over land royalties, high transport cost due to bad roads, unreliable lead times (caused by port delays), unavailability of local suppliers of international standards, and policy restrictions as the main challenges to supply chain. Clearly, the policy implication emanating from this study is that mining firms in partnership with transport services firms in Ghana must adopt an efficient service delivery and optimal transportation cost reduction strategies, which is designed with the Vehicle Routing Problem Optimization Model in order to benefit mutually in gaining competitive advantage.
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Fonju, Dr Njuafac Kenedy. "Pre-Colonial and Colonial British Equation of Exploration, Expropriation and Exploitation (3Es) Through Monarchical Hierarchical Orders of Diplomatic Agents in the Gold Coast (Ghana) of West Africa 1621-1957." Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 9, no. 9 (September 9, 2021): 400–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i09.004.
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The present paper brings 111 British pre-colonial and colonial diplomatic agents who moderated the activities of Exploration, Expropriation and Exploitation (3Es) in the Gold Coast (GC) located in the Rich Zone of African Gulf of Guinea (RZAGG) in the West African Region between 1621 and 1957 when GC gained independence as Ghana been the first Black African Country under the President ship of an African legend Pan-Africanist known as Kwame Nkrumah. The history of Ghana is very important in views of its previous Ghana Empire and Kingship system which European imperialist and colonisers destroyed with over ambitions of 3Es in the Centuries that followed culminated with slavery and slave trade dealings of human beings shipped as lodge of woods across the Atlantic Ocean to American plantations. The teaching of African History in the 21st Century entails us to know those agents and goes deep into their archives to search and evaluate their Machiavelli did in the specific countries during their tenure in office. This is because they laid the groundwork and foundation of Western European imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism which later cropped up during the second decade of the 20th Century at independence. Our intension is not to bring out all what they did but rather, the identification of principal actors of the period which can be beneficial to the young generation of historians to open up new research avenues by going deeper to illustrate the activities carried out by each of those foreign diplomatic agents in their 3Es instructions and executions. The scrutiny of specialized and secondary sources facilitated us to use a historical analytical approach with visible statistical tables illustrating each of those monarchical actors of Kings and Queens and agents appointed to fulfil their foreign gains from natural and human resources of GC later Ghana at independence.
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Osei, Anja. "From Conflict to Consensus? Elite Integration and Democracy in Ghana." Comparative Sociology 13, no. 4 (October 1, 2014): 503–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341318.
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The paper takes as its starting point Higley and Burton’s (2006) contention that no liberal democracy has ever evolved without a ‘consensually united elite’ which is structurally integrated and shares some general values. The fact that the evolution of a consensually united elite is a very rare event limits the prospects for the worldwide spread of liberal democracy. Ghana, however, could represent one of these rare cases. This paper looks at if and how an elite consensus on the “rules of the game” has emerged in the country and what the potential threats to this consensus are. It pays special attention to the social composition of elites and their patterns of interaction between elites (horizontal integration) as well as the relationship between elites and the wider population (vertical integration).
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Sarfo-Adu, Joseph Kwame. "The Relationship between Policy Design and Poverty Reduction: How the Design of Social Protection Programmes Address the Needs of the Poor in Ghana." Journal of Sustainable Development 14, no. 2 (February 2, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v14n2p1.
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The implementation of social protection programmes has seen some significant success in poverty reduction among nations. This notwithstanding, there are some challenges in the designing of these programmes that sometimes defeat their intended purposes. For this reason, there is the need for a further consideration on the design of social protection programmes in reaching the poor. This paper assesses how the design of social protection programmes in Ghana takes into consideration the needs of the poor and other intended beneficiaries. The study adopts the concepts of social protection designs by Norton, et al (2001) and the beneficiary-targeting approaches by Rama and Dean (2016) to compare and assess how Ghana’s programmes are designed. This is purely a qualitative study that interviewed 20 respondents with adequate knowledge on the design of the social protection programmes. The study revealed that generally, in Ghana, the design processes of social protection programmes adopt more institutional-consultation approach than beneficiary/community-level consultation. On the part of selecting beneficiaries for social protection however, programmes like LEAP, School Feeding and the Capitation Grants were community based, that allow representatives of communities to select beneficiaries for the programme. The design of social protection programmes should be responsive to the needs of their intended beneficiaries, there is therefore, the need for broader consultations with the targeted beneficiaries. Consultations should, hence, not just be limited at the institutional levels.
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Simon, Ofori Ametepey, William Gyadu-Asiedu, and Samuel K. Ansah. "State of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage in the Training of Construction Students in Ghanaian Technical Universities." International Journal of Technology and Management Research 5, no. 3 (October 15, 2020): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.47127/ijtmr.v5i3.102.
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In recent years, the construction sector has undergone impressive developments in the use of ICT. Thus, placing much demands on capacity building that will produce an adequate, highly skilled workforce to manage the growing technology in the industry. ICT takes the front role and essentially becomes the medium in which all the other operations are carriedout. Most researchers, thinkers and educators have taken up the challenge of using ICT since the 1980s with varied successes. For this reason, this paper assesses the extent to which ICT is used in the training of construction students in technical universities in Ghana. Quantitative method (questionnaire) was employed to elicit data from constructionlecturers and students in five technical universities in Ghana. Descriptive statistics and factor analysis were adopted in analyzing the data. The research discovered that ICT adoption in training construction students in Ghanaian technical universities is very low. The study also established twenty-four (24) factors as constraints to ICT usage in constructionstudents' training in technical universities in Ghana. These come under "technology constraints", "economic constraints", "human constraints", "environmental constraints," and "administrative constraints". There is, therefore, a pressing need for a drastic shift towards integrating Construction related ICT tools in training construction students inGhanaian technical universities.
Citation: Ametepey, S. O., Gyadu-Asiedu, W. and Ansah, S. K. State of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage in the Training of Construction Students in Ghanaian Technical Universities, 2020; 5(3): 86-95.
Received: May 20, 2020Accepted: September 30, 2020
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Asabere, Nana Yaw, Gare Lawson, Godwin Badu-Marfo, Lydia Kwofie, Daniel Opoku Mensah, and Reginald Lartey. "Classification of Public Health Centres in Accra through a Web-Based Portal Integrated with Geographical Information System (GIS)." Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2021 (December 3, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/4178161.
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A health system is described as a logically organized collection of resources, agents, and institutions that offer healthcare to a specific population based on the finance, regulation, and delivery of health services. Many health centres have been established in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, due to the importance of good health. People in other developed nations can seek adequate healthcare, since information about relevant health centres is readily available. However, there is a paucity of information about the services provided by existing health institutions in Ghana, particularly in Accra. The majority of patients commute to either Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital or Greater Accra Regional Hospital, putting a considerable medical strain on these facilities. In this study, we use a Geographic Information System (GIS) to establish a database for all of Accra’s health centres and categorize them according to the services they provide. This research tackled the previously mentioned problem by proposing and developing a web-based map called Geohealth for the classification of public health centres in Accra using GIS to assist users in accessing information and locating health centres. We utilized a mixed-method approach consisting of quantitative as well as Build Computer Science Research Methods. Results of our study show that the majority of the participants and stakeholders in our research are eager to embrace Geohealth. Furthermore, in comparison with existing techniques such as Google Maps, our proposed approach, Geohealth, takes less time to obtain information and locate public health centres in Accra, Ghana.
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Enock Katere, Peter Sutinga, William Ohene-Adjei, and Deborah Arhin. "Effects of training and development on the performance of employees of non-governmental organizations in the northern region of Ghana." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 16, no. 2 (November 30, 2022): 531–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2022.16.2.1149.
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The quality of an organization's human resources is indispensable to its success. This insight has inspired many organizations to focus on enhancing the quality of their employees in order to increase productivity and efficiency. Training and development is one way for accomplishing this. The significance of training and development can only be appreciated if the direct impact on employee performance is understood. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of training and development on the performance of employees of Non-Governmental Organisations in the Northern region of Ghana and to produce verifiable evidence of the impact of employee training on performance. The study comprised a sample size of 150 respondents who were selected using simple random sampling techniques. Data collection was done through closed-ended questionnaire administered to the respondents. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and the results were presented in tables. The study results found a significant relationship between training and development and employee performance, and that off-the-job training and development programs have mainly contributed to increasing performance and productivity of employees of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Northern region of Ghana. Furthermore, the study discovered that on-the-job training has little to no effect on employee performance. The study recommends that the leadership of Non-Governmental Organizations in Northern Ghana should establish off-the-job training models for their employees if they want to increase productivity and efficiency.
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Okafor, Mary Akusua, and Esther Abenaa Obika. "Involvement of Technological Growth on Policing Performance in Ghana." American Journal of Technology 1, no. 1 (November 8, 2022): 12–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.58425/ajt.v1i1.59.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the involvements of technological growths on performance of police officers and suggest the best ways to enhance technology use in the Ghana Police Service.
Methodology: The study adopted a descriptive research design survey. The sampling techniques used were simple random sampling. Raw data from respondents was obtained using questionnaires, interviews and focused group discussions. The qualitative data was analyzed thematically and by looking for patterns. They were presented in the form of narrative and verbatim quotations. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics includes percentages and means. They were presented in tables, graphs and pie charts.
Findings: The results of the study established that the performance of police officers has greatly improved due to growth of technology. The study established that there was use of technology in Ghana police service though not very much advanced.
Conclusion: The study concluded that Globalization and new technologies have facilitated certain cyber-criminal operations, thereby placing an additional burden on law enforcement agencies.
Recommendation: The study recommends the government of Ghana should increase the allocation of funds to the National Police Service for the acquisition of updated equipment, to provide training at appropriate levels in forensic techniques and in technological skills for policy makers and law enforcement and investigative personnel, introduce appropriate procedural and substantive laws to deal with crimes committed in an electronic environment and raise public awareness, on the appropriate use of the internet.
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Busia, Kwaku Abrefa, Alice Amegah, and Francis Arthur-Holmes. "Pathways of Electoral Clientelism in University Student Elections in Ghana: An Exploratory Study." Journal for Students Affairs in Africa 9, no. 2 (December 28, 2021): 153–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.24085/jsaa.v9i2.2204.
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Recent studies on student politics and governance have shown that electoral clientelism (EC) in university student elections is often facilitated by clientelist relations between student leaders and political parties. However, there is a dearth of empirical research investigating the various forms of electoral clientelism, as manifested through vote-buying practices in campus electoral politics in African universities. This article, therefore, investigates the multifaceted and changing dynamics of vote-buying in student electoral processes in Ghanaian universities. The study adopted a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with 15 student leaders, 4 university staff working with student leadership, and 4 focus group interviews involving students at the University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. From our finding, we argue that electoral clientelism takes place in five crucial ways in university student elections in Ghana. These include the provision of direct cash payments, exchanging electoral support for student government positions and appointments, provision of food and beverage consumables, award of student-related business contracts, and provision of educational materials and souvenirs.
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Aboagye, Prince Young, and Ellen Hillbom. "Tax bargaining, fiscal contracts, and fiscal capacity in Ghana: A long-term perspective." African Affairs 119, no. 475 (March 16, 2020): 177–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaa004.
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Abstract Many Sub-Saharan African countries are unable to generate sufficient tax revenues for public purposes. While it is widely accepted that governments’ ability to tax is shaped by politics, the precise mechanisms through which this relationship takes place in practice remain elusive. Based on a historical analysis of four major tax reforms in Ghana from the 1850s to the late 1990s, this article captures the various ways in which taxpayers negotiate with the state in an attempt to limit the extent of taxation, especially in cases where state reciprocity falls short of what people expect. Our evidence suggests that, far from being a recent development, effective taxation in Ghana has long depended on the ability of the state to convince taxpayers that tax revenues will be used for the public benefit. A history of misappropriation of tax revenues, overt corruption, and profligacy diminished taxpayers’ support for governments’ tax efforts. More generally, the article points to the importance of understanding how tax bargaining works in practice and people’s perceptions of their governments over the long term to overcome resistance to tax reforms.
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Bakel, M. A., A. Appadurai, C. Baks, Ákos Östör, W. E. A. Beek, B. Bernardi, H. W. Bodewitz, et al. "Book Reviews." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 143, no. 1 (1987): 159–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003345.
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- J. van Goor, Rechtzetting. - M.A. van Bakel, A. Appadurai, The social life of things. Commodities in cultural perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. XIV + 329 pp. - C. Baks, Ákos Östör, Culture and power; Legend, ritual, bazaar and rebellion in a Bengali society, New Dehli etc.: Sage Publications, 1984, 224 pp., including notes and glossary. - W.E.A. van Beek, B. Bernardi, Age class systems; Social institutions based on age, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 199 pp. - H.W. Bodewitz, J.-M Péterfalvi, Le Mahabharata. Livres I à V. Livres VI à XVIII. Extraits traduits du sanscrit par Jean-Michel Péterfalvi. Commentaires, résumé et glossaire par Madeleine Biardeau, Paris: Flammarion, 1985 and 1986. 381 + 382 pp., M. Biardeau (eds.) - Paul Doornbos, Raymond C. Kelly, The Nuer conquest - The structure and development of an expansionist system, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1985, 320 pp. - Henk Driessen, Paul Spencer, Society and the dance: The social anthropology of process and performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, 224 pp. - D. Gerrets, Daniel Miller, Ideology, power and prehistory, Cambridge: University Press, 1984. 157 pp. numerous figs., Christopher Tilly (eds.) - Peter Kloos, Jacques Lizot, Les Yanomami Centraux, Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1984, 267 pp. - Peter Kloos, Jacques Lizot, Tales of the Yanomami; Daily life in the Venezuelan forest, Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology no. 55, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 196 pp. - Peter Kloos, H. Zevenbergen, Zwakzinnigen in verschillende culturen, Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1986, 109 pp. - Piet Konings, Freek Schiphorst, Macht en Onvermogen: Een studie van de relatie tussen staat en boeren op het Vea-irrigatie project Ghana, Universiteit van Amsterdam, CANSA publikatie nr. 20, 1983, 107 pp. - S. Kooijman, E. Schlesier, Eine ethnographische Sammlung aus Südost-Neuguinea. - H.M. Leyten, Bernhard Gardi, Zaïre masken figuren, Museum für Völkerkunde und Schweizerisches Museum für Volkskunde, Basel, 1986. - J. Miedema, Bruce M. Knauft, Good company and violence: Sorcery and social action in a lowland New Guinea Society, Berkeley, Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1985, X + 474 pp. - David S. Moyer, David H. Turner, Life before genesis, a conclusion: An understanding of the significance of Australian aboriginal culture, Toronto Studies in religion volume 1, Peter Lang, New York, 1983, vii + 181 pp. - B. van Norren, Peter Kloos, Onderzoekers onderzocht; Ethische dilemma’s in antropologisch veldwerk, DSWO Press, Leiden, 1984. - Jérôme Rousseau, Victor T. King, The Maloh of West Kalimantan. An ethnographic study of social inequality and social change among an Indonesian Borneo people, Dordrecht-Holland/Cinnaminson-U.S.A.: Foris Publications, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde no. 108, 1985. viii + 252 pp., maps, diagrams, plates, glossary. - Jérôme Rousseau, Alain Testart, Le communisme primitif, I. Economie et idéologie, Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1985, 549 pp. - Arie de Ruijter, David Pace, Claude Lévi-Strauss. The bearer of ashes, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (Ark Paperbacks), 1986. - B.J. Terwiel, Roland Mischung, Religion und Wirklichkeitsvorstellungen in einem Karen-Dorf Nordwest-Thailands, Weisbaden: Franza Steiner Verlag, 1984. - B.J. Terwiel, Niels Mulder, Everyday life in Thailand; An interpretation, Second, Revised edition, Bangkok: Duang Kamol, 1985. 227 pages, paperback. - R.S. Wassing, Sidney M. Mead, Art and artists of Oceania, The Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 1983. 308 pp., drawings, black and white illustrations., Bernie Kernot (eds.) - Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Maarten van der Wee, Aziatische Produktiewijze en Mughal India, Ph.D thesis, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, 1985. xv + 399 pp. - M.A. van Bakel, J. Terrell, Prehistory in the Pacific Islands. A study of variation in language, customs and human biology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986, XVI + 299 pp.
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Baba Abugre, James. "Managerial role in organizational CSR: empirical lessons from Ghana." Corporate Governance 14, no. 1 (January 28, 2014): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cg-10-2011-0076.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the managerial role in the practices of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing economies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an empirical analysis of employees' opinions based on a quantitative survey of 100 middle and senior level managers from four organisations chosen from relatively high impact industry sectors. Findings – Managerial role in the practice of CSR is limited and ineffective in Ghana. Difficulties of effective CSR implementation mainly stem from leadership weak spots in the form of mismanagement and corruption, lack of leadership commitment and unwillingness to allocate monies due for CSR activities. Organisations can do better in the practice of CSR if management's attitude to CSR, corruption, and work behaviors are positive. Practical implications – The paper provides valuable information on managerial activities with regards to organisational CSR, and how these can be improved. Originality/value – Empirical literature on CSR in developing countries is limited. This paper identifies the roles that management and organisational leadership can play in the practice of CSR in developing countries. The paper proposes a universal approach which aims to address the need for adequate and effective enforcement of CSR.
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Acquah-Sam, Emmanuel, and Dorothy Bugre. "Effects of Mobile Money on Beige Bank, Ghana." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 31 (November 30, 2018): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n31p29.
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The motivation for this study was that, existing literature have reported on the growth of mobile money (MM) and its clientele base. However, studies on the effects of mobile money service on customers and performance of an individual bank; challenges, threats, and opportunities mobile money service presents to an individual bank are very rare to find so adding to the existing studies on the sector will help provide more insight into the operations of the sector and direct policy decisions of policy-makers, bank officials, and telecom operators. This study sought to find out how mobile money services have affected customers and performance of Beige Bank in Ghana. The research is a descriptive survey design that presents results in mean scores, frequency distribution tables, pie charts, bar graph, and Chi-square test of relationship. The study found that mobile money service had a positive effect on customers’ remittances. Also, mobile money positively influenced customers’ saving habits. Furthermore, majority of the respondents had bank accounts, mobile money accounts, and still engaged in MM transactions. Again, instead of being a threat, mobile money presents opportunities like, cross selling of products, increase in customer base through the registration of mobile money agents, and increased bank commissionIt is recommended that Beige Bank, Ghana and other banks in Ghana should focus on getting mobile agents to save and buy E-cash from them, and develop mobile phone apps which provide access to mobile money service where customers can easily transfer money between their bank accounts and their mobile money wallets.
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N.L. Calys-Tagoe, Benedict, Christian Owoo, Joseph A. Oliver-Commey, Ebenezer Oduro- Mensah, Lawrence Ofori-Boadu, Evelyn Adjei-Mensah, Ernest Kenu, Ali Samba, Alfred E. Yawson, and Margaret Lartey. "Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the first cohort of COVID-19 recoveries at two national treatment centres in Accra, Ghana." Ghana Medical Journal 54, no. 4s (December 31, 2020): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v54i4s.4.
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Introduction COVID-19 is a new disease, knowledge on the mode of transmission and clinical features are still evolving, new tests are being developed with inherent challenges regarding interpretation of tests results. There is generally, a gap in knowledge on the virus globally as the pandemic evolves and in Ghana, there is dearth of information and documentation on the clinical characteristics of the virus. With these in mind, we set out to profile the initial cohort of COVID-19 patients who recovered in Ghana.
Methods: We reviewed clinical records of all confirmed cases of COVID-19 who had recovered from the two main treatment centres in Accra, Ghana. Descriptive data analysis was employed and presented in simple and relational tables. Independent t-test and ANOVA were used to determine differences in the mean age of the sexes and the number of days taken for the first and second retesting to be done per selected patient characteristics.
Results: Of the 146 records reviewed, 54% were male; mean age of patients was 41.9 ± 17.5 years, nearly half were asymptomatic, with 9% being severely ill. The commonest presenting symptoms were cough (22.6%), headache (13%) and sore throat (11%) while the commonest co-morbidities were hypertension (25.3%), diabetes mellitus (14%) and heart disease (3.4%).
Conclusion: COVID-19 affected more males than females; nearly half of those infected were asymptomatic. Cough, headache and sore throat were the commonest symptoms and mean duration from case confirmation to full recovery was 19 days. Further research is required as pandemic evolves
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Tindan, Peter Dok, Divine Odame Appiah, and Alexander Yao Segbefia. "Attentiveness to Early Warning Drought Information: Implications for Policy Support and Climate Risk Reduction in Ghana." International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 13, no. 1 (January 11, 2022): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-021-00390-2.
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AbstractSuccessful drought planning is dependent on the generation of timely and accurate early warning information. Yet there is little evidence to explain the extent to which crop farmers pay attention to and assimilate early warning drought information that aids in the policy formulation in support of drought risk reduction. A socioecological survey, using a structured questionnaire administered to 426 crop farming households, was carried out in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, Ghana. The data analytic techniques used were frequency tables, relative importance index, and multinomial logistics embedded in SPSS v.20 software. The results show that crop farmers predominantly rely on agricultural extension officers for early warning drought information, with an estimated 78% of them paying little to very much attention to the information. The likelihood ratio Chi-square test showed that there is a significant improvement in fit as X2 (20) = 96.792, p < 0.000. Household status, average monthly income, and age were the significant predictors for crop farmers paying no attention at all to early warning drought information, while household status was the only significant factor among those paying a little attention. The drive to build a climate-resilient society with effective early warning centers across Ghana will receive 60% lower support from crop farmers paying no to a little attention as compared to farmers paying very much attention to early warning drought information. Broader stakeholder engagements should be carried out to harness inclusive support from crop farmers to build a climate-resilient society in Ghana.
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Akmal, Haerul, Teguh Eka Prasetya, and Abdurrahman Azmi. "The Analysis of Buying and Selling of Goods Without Price Tags in The Perspective of Fiqh Mu’amalah at Student Cooperative Stores of PMDG Campus." JES (Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah) 7, no. 1 (February 28, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.30736/jesa.v7i1.206.
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This research aims at finding out the practice of selling goods without price tags and the fiqh mu’amalah review on its sales at student cooperative stores of PMDG Campus. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative which describes the various conditions, situations and social phenomena that occur. Applying the field research, this study uses the interview results with the management of student and consumer cooperatives, as a source of data collection. Based on this research, sales in student cooperatives apply the same system as in supermarkets, where the consumer takes the items he wants to buy on the storefront, then takes them to the cashier to carry out the transaction process. Since the price tag is not included, the price given by the cashier sometimes changed or unclear. Hence, it can be assumed that the sale of goods without the use of price tags in student cooperatives Store still has a light ghara>r element, which lies in pricing. Due to the absence of a price tag, the management of the student cooperative sometimes speculated on their merchandise, giving rise to ghara>r. However, the ghara>r that occurs does not happen at the core of the trade, and does not cause hostility, so the buying and selling practice in student cooperatives store is legal.
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de Witte, Marleen. "Money and Death: Funeral Business in Asante, Ghana." Africa 73, no. 4 (November 2003): 531–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2003.73.4.531.
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AbstractThis article examines the current commercialisation and expansion of Asante funeral celebrations in Ghana. Funerals have always been the main public social events in Asante, but the growing funeral business significantly alters the way death is celebrated. The article takes as a point of departure a view of death as a field of strategic interaction, providing the ritual context for the creation of remembrance and identities, the elaboration of differences, the competition for status and power, and the negotiation of culture and social bonds and values. Within the framing narrative of respect for the dead and guiding the spirit to the next world, funerals are much about life. The article describes how, in shaping death, people deal with money to negotiate values of life and relations between the living, and shows that, contrary to both popular belief and critique on global commercialisation, in Asante the money economy and the social significance of the funeral tradition do not contravene, but rather reinforce each other. The funeral celebration is not wiped away by monetisation, nor is it a kind of last defence against it. Indeed, it is exactly through money and commodification that funeral celebrations are expanding, social ties forged, and cultural performances stimulated, albeit in new ways. In Asante funerals, people appropriate practices of consumption and commercial enterprise as well as indigenous traditions and exchange patterns in a process of ‘cultural bricolage’, and develop new, local styles of celebrating death, in which money has come to play a central role as social glue and as an expression of lifestyles, cultural values and ideals. It is argued that we cannot understand ‘traditional ritual’ unless we move beyond the rather rigid opposition between tradition and modernity still prevalent in ritual studies to acknowledge the open, flexible nature of tradition that makes it so vibrant in modern African life.
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WIEMERS, ALICE. "‘WHEN THE CHIEF TAKES AN INTEREST’: DEVELOPMENT AND THE REINVENTION OF ‘COMMUNAL’ LABOR IN NORTHERN GHANA, 1935–60." Journal of African History 58, no. 2 (June 7, 2017): 239–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853716000633.
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AbstractAs colonial and nationalist governments pursued small-scale development in mid-century northern Ghana, so-called ‘voluntary’, ‘communal’, or ‘self-help’ labor became a key determinant of funding. District records and oral histories show how colonial officials, chiefs, and party politicians alternately cast unpaid labor as a way to cut costs, a catalyst for new forms of politics, and an expression of local cohesion. This article extends analysis of ‘self-help’ beyond articulations of and debates about national policy, examining daily negotiations over budgeting and building. It follows two chiefs who used their ability to raise labor to navigate a rapidly changing political landscape. The line between coercion and voluntarism was rarely clear, nor were the meanings of labor fixed for administrators, chiefs, or their constituents. These local actors created the circumstances for successive governments to frame unpaid labor as a legitimate demand on rural citizens.
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Adu-Asare Idun, Anthony, and Anthony Q.Q. Aboagye. "Bank competition, financial innovations and economic growth in Ghana." African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2014): 30–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ajems-09-2012-0057.
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Purpose – This paper takes the finance-growth nexus further by looking at the relationship between bank competition, financial innovations and economic growth in Ghana. The purpose of this paper is to find the causality among bank competition, financial innovations and economic growth in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – The relationship between bank competition, financial innovations and economic growth was established through the framework of the endogenous growth model. In addition, the paper employed the bound testing ARDL cointegration procedures to enable us to establish both short-run and long-run relationship between bank competition, financial innovations and economic growth. Granger causality test were also estimated to determine the direction of causality. Findings – The results showed that, in the long run, bank competition is positively related to economic growth while financial innovation is negatively related to economic growth. In the short run, bank competition is negatively related to economic growth. By the same token, financial innovation is positively related to economic growth in the short run. In terms of causality, the results showed that there is unidirectional Granger causality from bank competition to economic growth. However, there is bidirectional Granger causality between financial innovation and economic growth. Practical implications – The study therefore, recommends for more regulations toward a more competitive banking system with more innovative products tailored toward mobilization of savings and investment to growth induced sectors of the economy. Originality/value – This paper provides a time series perspective to the finance-growth nexus and highlights the potential contribution of effective banking development to the economic welfare of the Ghanaian citizens.
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Setrana, Mary Boatemaa. "Promoting Peace and Managing Farmer-Herder Conflict: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Agogo, Ghana." African Studies Review 65, no. 2 (June 2022): 430–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2021.92.
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AbstractContinued clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers generate concerns about the capacity of community-based civil society organizations to effectively navigate conflict resolution in Agogo Traditional Area (ATA), Ghana. The Agogo and Fulani associations ostensibly manage farmer-herder conflict but with mixed results. Setrana argues that, unlike foreign or international civil society organizations, community-based associations play important roles in managing conflict because they often have better cultural understanding. The success of such organizations, however, depends on whether they are perceived as indigenous or non-indigenous. This binary framework often leads to a winner-takes-all attitude and rarely results in sustainable conflict resolution.